Carol Anthony’s Guide to the I Ching:
We are not meant, as we are advised in the I Ching, to always be on the go, but to regularly have a time for being quiet. Achieving inner quiet requires that we allow the inner static of restlessness to subside.
The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts:
The reason is not just that we are too much in a hurry and have no sense of the present; not just that we cannot afford the type of labor that such things would now involve, nor just that we prefer money to materials. The reason is that we have scrubbed the world clean of magic. We have lost even the vision of paradise, so that our artists and craftsmen can no longer discern its forms. This is the price that must be paid for attempting to control the world from the standpoint of an “I” for whom everything that can be experienced is a foreign object and a nothing-but.
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet by Thich Nhat Hanh:
How can we stop being victims of overscheduling? Our society is so caught in our daily concerns and anxiety we don’t have time to live our life or to love. We don’t have time to live deeply and touch the true nature of what is there, to understand what life is. We are too busy to have the time to breathe, to sit, to rest.